A Redding woman is under arrest for using racial slurs and threatening to assault and kill a security guard at the Redding Public Library Wednesday afternoon, officers with the Redding Police Department said.

Forcep Birkle, 49, of Redding, is on felony probation and not allowed to be near City Hall or the library due to a May 23 arrest where she was bathing nude in the City Hall fountains, took down and destroyed an American flag, and then broke out the City Hall windows.

She tried to return to the library at noon on Wednesday, but was ordered to leave by the security guard, Michael Wilson.

Birkle became angry and threatened to "beat up" Wilson, police said. She then spit on him and began punching him. Wilson pepper sprayed Birkle to stop the attack, and she decided to leave.

Believing Wilson was of Mexican ethnicity, Birkle used racial slurs and threatened to kill him.

Birkle was found behind Redding Public Library and was arrested for making criminal threats based on perceived ethnicity of Wilson, making terrorist threats, battery and felony probation violation.

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